The Sentinel said: “Jackson, who at the time of his death was married and living at 617 1/2 E. Santa Barbara [now Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard] but who intimates say was ‘running around’ with the willowy Miss Miles-El, was allegedly stabbed to death by the woman in the Onyx Bar, 109 Fair Oaks Avenue, Pasadena, following what witnesses say was a quarrel.”

The quarrel began when Jackson said he didn’t want Miles-El driving other people around in his Cadillac. Jackson slapped Miles-El “many times” a witness testified at the inquest.

Miles-El told friends to “forget” the slapping, the Sentinel said. But 10 minutes later, Miles-El plunged a paring knife into his chest “as she sat facing him on a bar stool,” the Sentinel said.

A cabdriver took Jackson to a hospital and then to Huntington Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.